I’ve always been a fan of the Webmaster Tools that Google offers. If you have a website, you really should make use of some of the really nice features that they offer. The crawling and indexing information found there is great.
In early December they added some new features, with the Site Performance feature being one of the more useful upgrades I’ve found in a while. It can be found under the Labs section and shares very useful info about your site’s speed as well as how well or not so well you rank in terms of load times compared with other sites.
As a guy who continually tries to squeeze each and every millisecond out of load times, this is great information to know! They also offer suggestions as to how you can improve the speed of certain pages on your site as well.
While many of these features can also be found in YSlow as well (which is another must for any developer), it also does warrant a look.
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Have you heard about the new Speed Tracer extension for the Chrome (Dev Channel)?
It’s quite amazing for tracing screen-redraws and things that cause “sluggishness!”
– N